Orsolya Ring (Senior Researcher at poltextLAB, Centre for Social Sciences) was among the participants of the workshop titled ’Can it be read from a distance? Perspectives for Text Mining in Sociological Research’. The workshop was part of the ’Methodically’ Debate Series organised by ELTE (Faculty of Social Sciences) and the Centre for Social Science and the Artificial Intelligence National Laboratory (MILAB). Participants discussed the potential limitations and opportunities of the use of text mining tools in social science.